Ray Libraries

Ray Data

🎉 New Features:

• Add Dataset.rename_columns (#47906)
• Basic structured logging (#47210)

💫 Enhancements:

• Add partitioning parameter to read_parquet (#47553)
• Add SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE to list of retried transient errors (#47673)
• Re-phrase the streaming executor current usage string (#47515)
• Remove ray.kill in ActorPoolMapOperator (#47752)
• Simplify and consolidate progress bar outputs (#47692)
• Refactor OpRuntimeMetrics to support properties (#47800)
• Refactor plan_write_op and Datasinks (#47942)
• Link PhysicalOperator to its LogicalOperator (#47986)
• Allow specifying both num_cpus and num_gpus for map APIs (#47995)
• Allow specifying insertion index when registering custom plan optimization Rules (#48039)
• Adding in better framework for substituting logging handlers (#48056)

🔨 Fixes:

• Fix bug where Ray Data incorrectly emits progress bar warning (#47680)
• Yield remaining results from async map_batches (#47696)
• Fix event loop mismatch with async map (#47907)
• Make sure num_gpus provide to Ray Data is appropriately passed to ray.remote call (#47768)
• Fix unequal partitions when grouping by multiple keys (#47924)
• Fix reading multiple parquet files with ragged ndarrays (#47961)
• Removing unneeded test case (#48031)
• Adding in better json checking in test logging (#48036)
• Fix bug with inserting custom optimization rule at index 0 (#48051)
• Fix logging output from write_xxx APIs (#48096)

📖 Documentation:

• Add docs section for Ray Data progress bars (#47804)
• Add reference to parquet predicate pushdown (#47881)
• Add tip about how to understand map_batches format (#47394)

Ray Train

🏗 Architecture refactoring:

• Remove deprecated mosaic and sklearn trainer code (#47901)

Ray Tune

🔨 Fixes:

• Fix WandbLoggerCallback to reuse actors upon restore (#47985)

Ray Serve

🔨 Fixes:

• Stop scheduling task early when requests have been canceled (#47847)

RLlib

🎉 New Features:

• Enable cloud checkpointing. (#47682)

💫 Enhancements:

• PPO on new API stack now shuffles batches properly before each epoch. (#47458)
• Other enhancements: #47705, #47501, #47731, #47451, #47830, #47970, #47157

🔨 Fixes:

• Fix spot node preemption problem (RLlib now run stably with EnvRunner workers on spot nodes) (#47940)
• Fix action masking example. (#47817)
• Various other fixes: #47973, #46721, #47914, #47880, #47304, #47686

🏗 Architecture refactoring:

• Switch on new API stack by default for SAC and DQN. (#47217)
• Remove Tf support on new API stack for PPO/IMPALA/APPO (only DreamerV3 on new API stack remains with tf now). (#47892)
• Discontinue support for "hybrid" API stack (using RLModule + Learner, but still on RolloutWorker and Policy) (#46085)
• RLModule (new API stack) refinements: #47884, #47885, #47889, #47908, #47915, #47965, #47775

📖 Documentation:

• Add new API stack migration guide. (#47779)
• New API stack example script: BC pre training, then PPO finetuning using same RLModule class. (#47838)
• New API stack: Autoregressive actions example. (#47829)
• Remove old API stack connector docs entirely. (#47778)

Ray Core and Ray Clusters

Ray Core

🎉 New Features:

• CompiledGraphs: support multi readers in multi node when DAG is created from an actor (#47601)

💫 Enhancements:

• Add a flag to raise exception for out of band serialization of ObjectRef (#47544)
• Store each GCS table in its own Redis Hash (#46861)
• Decouple create worker vs pop worker request. (#47694)
• Add metrics for GCS jobs (#47793)

🔨 Fixes:

• Fix broken dashboard cluster page when there are dead nodes (#47701)
• Fix the ray_tasks{State="PENDING_ARGS_FETCH"} metric counting (#47770)
• Separate the attempt_number with the task_status in memory summary and object list (#47818)
• Fix object reconstruction hang on arguments pending creation (#47645)
• Fix check failure: sync_reactors_.find(reactor->GetRemoteNodeID()) == sync_reactors_.end() (#47861)
• Fix check failure RAY_CHECK(it != current_tasks_.end()); (#47659)

📖 Documentation:

• KubeRay docs: Add docs for YuniKorn Gang scheduling #47850

Dashboard

💫 Enhancements:

• Performance improvements for large scale clusters (#47617)

🔨 Fixes:

• Placement group and required resources not showing correctly in dashboard (#47754)

Thanks

Many thanks to all those who contributed to this release!
@GeneDer, @rkooo567, @dayshah, @saihaj, @nikitavemuri, @bill-oconnor-anyscale, @WeichenXu123, @can-anyscale, @jjyao, @edoakes, @kekulai-fredchang, @bveeramani, @alexeykudinkin, @raulchen, @khluu, @sven1977, @ruisearch42, @dentiny, @MengjinYan, @Mark2000, @simonsays1980, @rynewang, @PatricYan, @zcin, @sofianhnaide, @matthewdeng, @dlwh, @scottjlee, @MortalHappiness, @kevin85421, @win5923, @aslonnie, @prithvi081099, @richardsliu, @milesvant, @omatthew98, @Superskyyy, @pcmoritz